Price: £750
Subject: History
Published Date: 1754
Stock Number: 52209
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The Mock-Patriot, for 1753. - (Ireland.) The Political Ballance [sic] for 1754,
To which is added, the Case of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford in Ireland, who was convicted of Beastiality with a COW and other Creatures, for which he was hang'd at Dublin; with a full Account of his Behaviour after Condemnation, and the Letters he left before his Execution: By N. Barnard dean of Ardagh, at the Command of the Primate of Ireland.
Description: slightly browned, more particularly the outer leaves, pp. 52, 8vo, cased in modern beige calf backed buckram boards, book plate of David Arthur Pailin, soundPublication Details: Dublin: Printed, London: Re-printed, 1754
Notes: Loosely inserted is a long, and rather amusing, typed letter, apparently from someone in the John Rylands Library, to the former owner of this pamphlet, giving the historical background to it. It relates to the unexpected surplus of revenue to the Irish Parliament in 1753/4 and the subsequent wranglings between Dublin and London as to what should be done with it, and the faction struggle in Ireland that lay behind the manoeuverings. 'The case of John Atherton' was first published as 'The penitent death of a woful sinner, John Atherton', Dublin, 1641: this is all we have here, in spite of the s...more
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